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Projects of General Linguistics

This map shows some of the places where members of our institute are currently doing or have done fieldwork.


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Current Projects

Taking spoken language seriously

Taking spoken language seriously

The fact that typological or theoretical work making use of data from languages without a writing tradition – the large majority of the world’s languages – is often exclusively based on written transcripts of spoken language, as in documentary language corpora. The project asks whether this practice and the assumptions underlying it are sound.
Documenting child language: The Qaqet Baining of Papua New Guinea

Documenting child language: The Qaqet Baining of Papua New Guinea

In our project, we work together with the Qaqet people to describe and document their language: the language of adults, and especially the language of children. What do children hear from their parents, from other adults, from other children? What do they themselves speak? What do they need to learn to grow up as responsible members of Qaqet society? How do they learn?
SFB 1252 Prominence in Language

SFB 1252 Prominence in Language

In this Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 1252) more than sixty researchers are working together in an interdisciplinary team with the goal of providing a comprehensive characterization of prominence in language.
CLARIN-D

CLARIN-D

The CLARIN-D project coordinates and builds a research infrastructure for the digital humanities. The project aims at providing linguistic data, tools and services in an integrated, interoperable and scalable infrastructure for the social sciences and humanities. CLARIN-D is part of the CLARIN European Research Infrastructure Consortium – CLARIN ERIC.
CELD

CELD

As part of the projects Establishing sustainable local structures for the documentation of endangered languages in Indonesian Papua: Documenting Wooi and Documentation summits in the central mountains of Papua we are supporting the establishment of a Center for Endangered Languages Documentation at the Universitas Negeri Papua.
Information distribution and language structure

Information distribution and language structure

The topic is the manifestation of variability in the formal differentiation of word types at the discourse level: Does the different formal expression of the noun/verb distinction correlate with differences in the information content of the word forms?
VedaWeb

VedaWeb

This DFG-funded project provides a web-based, open-access platform in order to facilitate linguistic research on Old Indic texts. The text corpus is made available in a digitally accessible as well as morphologically and metrically annotated form, searchable for lexicographic and corpus-linguistic criteria. VedaWeb is part of the Cologne South Asian Languages and Texts (C-SALT).

Concluded Projects